Hassan is the Country Director of Coinbase Singapore. He previously held dual positions at GoTo Group as CEO of Coins.ph, the leading crypto brokerage in the Philippines; as well as SVP Strategy for Gopay, Indonesia's largest eWallet service. Hassan's professional experience extends to New York, where he oversaw the launch of eToro’s regulated crypto trading platform in the United States as Director of Finance & Operations. Additionally, he was Head of Business Operations at Venmo and Vice President of Strategy at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management.

Jacob Phillips is the Co-Founder and head of strategy at Lombard. He is responsible for driving strategic vision and overseeing operational execution.  Prior to founding Lombard, Jacob served as the COO at a DeFi derivatives protocol, Perennial, where he was the first hire and played a crucial role in shaping the company's direction and growth.

Lisa is the founder and managing director at Economics Design, a research focused consultancy for digital ecosystems.

In the research space, she contributes to research work in various fields like math, governance policy and economics, while having the practitioner exposure through designing token economic models for projects.

She was one of the first few to research and educate on token economics, starting in 2018 in London. Since then, she has a weekly podcast on the economics of token ecosystems, online courses, and has educated regulators, government officials, students and organisations in London, Singapore, Seoul, Geneva and Columbia University.

Nic co-founded Oh in early 2022 with Felix. Together, they also co-founded a successful digital marketing and PR agency, which generated six-figure annual profits. Prior to the success of his own agency, he worked at a top PR agency consulting some of the world’s biggest brands including Huawei and Burger King. Nic leads the vision and general direction of the business.

Nikhil Joshi is the COO of EMURGO with a remit to increase its commercial adoption through build and investment. He oversees the build side of EMURGO’s Fintech, Media and Education products, as well as its incubation arm. 


Prior to EMURGO, Nikhil was the COO of a Singaporean startup focused on solving trade and supply chain woes using Hyperledger Fabric and Corda. He successfully fundraised $7m for a Series A round during Covid. Before that, Nikhil spent 15 years with Barclays in London and Singapore, improving capital efficiency for New York and London structured credit desks, as well as lobbying global regulators on Basel I-IV. Latterly, he was involved in strategic and tactical initiatives using revenue, cost, funding, capital and liquidity levers to improve Return on Equity for Barclays' Asian business. He also worked extensively with Senior Relationship Management and IBD parts of the business on client strategy and cross-selling.

Samar heads up the Talos business in APAC, delivering institutional-grade digital asset trading systems to customers on the buy-side and sell-side. Over his 20-year career, Sen has worked in a variety of product, strategy, and technology leadership roles at capital markets firms across the industry. Prior to joining Talos, he served as the Global Head of Digital Products for Securities Services at Deutsche Bank, where he co-led the bank’s digital asset strategy and product delivery. In addition, he has held senior Asia-based roles at BNP Paribas, Barclays, and TradeHero after starting his career at Goldman Sachs in New York. Sen holds a degree in Computer Science from Northwestern University and an MBA from INSEAD.

Sota Watanabe is CEO of Startale Group, the company that aims "Web3 For Billions" by building products like Astar, Soneium with Sony Group, and Startale Cloud. In addition to that, he is one of the directors of Japan Blockchain Assosiation. He previously selected Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia and Japan in 2022 and 100 People of Japan in 2023 by Newsweeks.